“When one doesn’t want to, two don’t fight,” said no democratic head of state when Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia in 1939, in a reign of terror that claimed the lives of 345,000.
Pedestrian metaphors are generally unsuitable for discussing foreign policy, especially in reference to the biggest unprovoked military attack since World War II, launched a year ago — an occupation whose atrocities would earn multiple convictions in the Hague Court.
When I hear the president who got my vote talk about the immense Ukrainian tragedy, I am transported back in time to my adolescence of mimeographs, student councils and childish leftism.
If the agenda of the hurried meeting on Friday (10th) in Washington includes the political extremism that generated coup attempts in Brazil and the USA; if the two allies agree on the seriousness of spreading false information, Lula and Biden can talk for an entire weekend by the cozy stone fireplace at Camp David.
This Wednesday (8), a team of international investigators revealed “strong evidence” that Vladimir Putin authorized the transfer to “separatists” in Ukrainian territory of weapons such as the Buk missile, which shot down a Malaysia Airlines plane over Ukraine. in July 2014, killing 298 civilians. The carnage took place four months after the invasion and annexation of Crimea and was quickly debited from Vladimir’s account by valiant investigative reporters cooperating in various countries across Europe.
Since the first invasion of Ukraine, nine years ago, we have witnessed the deplorable moral relativism of —I make it clear— only part of the left, which frames crises in the context of the Cold War and clichés against Yankee imperialism —an evil that would be fought with the imperialism of tsar cosplay, former asshole KGB agent, gangster and mass murderer, the bastard who needs to remain cooped up in the Kremlin to stay alive.
This week, a story suppressed in July 2020 saw the light of day on the British website Byline Times. The report was commissioned by the mother of all publications that protect the sanctity of the independent press, the Columbia Journalism Review, affiliated with the most prestigious school of journalism in the USA, at Columbia University.
According to British investigative journalist Duncan Campbell, the report, commissioned to investigate how much the centuries-old left-wing publication The Nation was in Moscow’s pocket, was censored, in a repulsive Stalinist accommodation.
The cardinalate that informs Lula about the invasion of Ukraine —unjustifiable under any moral or ideological criteria— wants us to believe that there are “two logics” at play and reserves tolerance for the annexation of Crimea and idiotic condemnation of NATO’s expansionist notions using, as an argument , even comments by the unpunished genocidal Henry Kissinger.
The Brazilian State –and diplomacy belongs to the State, not to the party— has nothing to gain by accommodating the fascist authoritarianism of Vladimir Putin, Narendra Modi or Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The government that brought Marina Silva back needs to stop relativizing the role of the killers of democracy.
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